The Pha Muang Task Force is strictly patrolling the Thai-Myanmar border after Tachileik entertainment venues located across the border from Mae Sai district in Chiang Rai province reopened.
The authorities are on vigil for Thai people returning after working or gambling across the border, increasing the risk of Covid-19 being spread.
From April 2021 to date, the Task Force arrested illegal immigrants from Myanmar 13 times; 59 smugglers were found to be coming from northern Myanmar, which has a border with India.
The source said that job openings were announced at the Tachileik side of the border at an entertainment complex called “King horse fly pub 6888”, which is located only about a kilometre from the border checkpoint at the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge.
It hit the headlines late last year when a number of Thai nationals working in the town crossed back into Thailand illegally, bringing Covid-19 with them.
Many of the Thais were employed at the 1G1-7 Hotel, a luxury, 100 room, 4 storey hotel, located just 1.5 kilometres from the border checkpoint in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district.
Subsequent reports alleged that the venue was a centre for prostitution, operating as a high-class brothel for wealthy businessmen and the upper echelons of the Burmese military.
